(Source: History.Com)
The word "Holocaust," from the Greek words "holos" (whole) and "kaustos" (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War.
"Oh my!" Eliza cried, using Philip as a hugging pillow.
"That is just..."
To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community.
"That's terrible...THESE MEN WERE IDIOTS!"
After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler's "final solution"–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland.
The room was silent. Mostly because of the horror that someone could ever be that cruel. By the time the next reaction came up, they looked better, but felt horrible.
(-theforgottenone- you have officially made me cry.)
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